Submissions

Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts (up to 2 pages including references, based on the template provided) for either oral or poster presentation. Submission platform will be available soon.

Accepted submissions will be asked to prepare a 12-page paper to be presented at the symposium through oral presentations or poster sessions. A collection of the papers will be published as digital symposium proceedings.

Download Submission Template (DOCX, 60.1KB)

Special Issue in Fire and Materials Journal

Selected accepted papers will be requested to submit an extended version of their full paper to a Human behaviour in Fires Special Issue in Fire and Materials Journal. More info at Fire and Materials Journal Webpage.

Key Dates for Submissions

  • Deadline for extended abstract submission: February 15th, 2026
  • Notification of decisions to authors: March 30th, 2026
  • Deadline for full paper submission: May 30th, 2026

Key topics

All submissions related to human behaviour in fires are welcome.

The following topics are particularly encouraged:

  • Data collection and analysis

    • Study of human behaviour in fires through a wide range of methodological approaches (experiments, field settings, surveys, statistical methods, machine learning, etc.), and technologies

  • Qualitative studies

    • Information gathering to explore new concepts, developing hypotheses, and understand evacuee motivations - using interviews, observations, online methods, case studies, etc.,

  • Conceptual studies

    • Developing concepts and theories to explain human behaviour in fires.

  • Evacuation modelling

    • Simulation studies focused on representing evacuation behaviour, including exploration of human behaviour through models, verification and validation studies, crowd simulations, etc.

  • Incident analysis

    • Study and reconstruction of real-world emergencies (e.g. incident recording systems, forensic studies, etc.).

  • Crowd dynamics and crowd management

    • Analysis of crowd evacuation in emergencies and solutions aimed at managing crowds

  • Outdoor fire evacuation

    • Study of human behaviour in wildfires, informal settlement fires, urban fires

  • Human behaviour during transportation fires

    • Study of human behaviour and experience in fire incidents in transportation systems e.g., underground, ground, air, rail, maritime

  • Training

    • Interventions that aim to improve occupants’ and responders’ performance during fire incidents

  • Digital technology

    • Application to human behaviour in fires of AI, mixed reality, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), building information modelling (BIM)

  • Egressibility

    • Accessibility to means of evacuation for all, e.g., older populations, people with functional limitations/disabilities, neurodivergent communities, children